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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • I, the submitting author, warrant that I have the permission of any and all co-authors to submit this manuscript, that any co-authors can be considered as such according to the journal's criteria for authorship and that I have permission to be their spokesperson during the review process and beyond. I also approve distribution with the CC license the journal uses, and this too has been approved by co-authors.
  • The manuscript has not been previously published in the current submitted version, nor is it under consideration by another journal. If the manuscript has been published in an earlier version, this should be clearly indicated; see the journal's editorial guidelines. (Feel free to enter an explanation in the box "Comments to the editor" if relevant).
  • All material presented in the manuscript where copyright is held by third parties has been properly produced and the submitting author has ensured that the necessary permissions have been obtained.
  • In cases where there are individuals or groups of individuals who can be identified in the study, these, or alternatively their guardians, have signed informed consent agreements and thus given their consent for the submitted manuscript to be published online under a CC license.
  • In cases where it is applicable, the research has been reviewed by an appropriate ethics committee. In such cases, the name of the committee and the approval reference number should be included in the submitted manuscript.
  • The submitting author has entered their ORCiD identification number in their author data. Any co-authors have been advised to also provide their ORCiD in accordance with the journal's policy.
  • The text follows the stylistic and bibliographic requirements specified in the author instructions.
  • The manuscript files uploaded for review are anonymized according to the journal's policy.

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